Lunar Meteorite - Ajdabiya 001, C (3.4g)
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Real piece of the moon/lunar meteorite for sale!
Ajdabiya 001 is a lunar meteorite recovered in Libya in 2021! Lunar meteorites are rocks ejected into space by asteroid impacts on the moon. Some of this debris was captured by the gravitational pull of the Earth. This particular specimen weighs an incredible 3.4g.
This lunar specimen has been sliced to allow a cross-section view of a real moon rock!
This frame measures 2.5"X3.25" and can be shipped worldwide!
SCIENTIFIC DATA VIA METEORITIC SOCIETY:
Find: 2021
Classification: Lunar meteorite (melt breccia)
History: Found in 2021 in Libya and purchased by Adam Aaronson and Ahmed Salek in April 2021 from a dealer in Ajdabiya, Libya.
Physical characteristics: The specimens (total weight 28.8 kg) are distinctive in having relatively closely packed and unusually large, angular, light-gray lithic clasts (up to 2 cm) within a sparse dark, fine-grained matrix.
Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Breccia composed of angular lithic clasts and related crystalline debris within a sparse fine-grained and in part microvesicular matrix. Portions of the glassy matrix exhibit streaky flow-banding. Clast lithologies include spinel troctolite and quench-textured basaltic rocks. Minerals include anorthite, olivine, low-Ca pyroxene, exsolved pigeonite, augite, ilmenite, chromite (with variable Ti content), Fe-Cr-bearing spinel:, kamacite and troilite.
Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa27.3-45.5, FeO/MnO = 86-101, N = 5), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs27.8-40.8Wo2.4-4.6, FeO/MnO = 52-63, N = 5), augite (Fs19.0-22.0Wo44.0-41.6, FeO/MnO = 46-50, N = 2), anorthite (An94.8-97.4Or0.1-0.0, N = 4).
Classification: Lunar (feldspathic melt matrix breccia).